Salt: Multiple vulnerabilities — GLSA 202011-13

Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in Salt, the worst of which could result in the arbitrary execution of code.

Affected packages

app-admin/salt on all architectures
Affected versions < 3000.5
Unaffected versions >= 3000.5

Background

Salt is a remote execution and configuration manager.

Description

Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Salt. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details.

Impact

Please review the referenced CVE identifiers for details.

Workaround

There is no known workaround at this time.

Resolution

All Salt users should upgrade to the latest version:

 # emerge --sync
 # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=app-admin/salt-3000.5"
 

References

Release date
November 11, 2020

Latest revision
November 11, 2020: 1

Severity
normal

Exploitable
remote

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